I am trying to define a function "elem" which will create me a list of length n which has 1 at the i^th position.
def elem (i,n): A = [] for k in range [n-1]: if k != i: A.append([0]) if k == i: A.append([1]) return A elem (1,5) Why does the above not work? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.